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Last year, a new administrative position—Vice Provost for International Affairs—was created to govern the University’s international activities and advise the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics Jorge I. Dominguez currently occupies the position...
Mental health providers at Harvard face a dilemma and walk a fine line between being welcoming and appearing to take students’ problems seriously, University Provost Steven E. Hyman told students yesterday night. The student Mental Health Advocacy and Awareness Group (MHAAG) organized a panel in Hillel last night to discuss the latest manifestation of this dilemma. In October, University Health Services (UHS) floated the idea of renaming what is now Mental Health Services (MHS) at UHS Behavioral Health Services (BHS), and prompted a furious response from some quarters of the student body...
...billion spent last year, according to its Web site. It has committed itself to grants totaling $11 billion in its seven years of existence thus far. The Gates Foundation has already given millions to fund global health research in Harvard’s labs. Harvard’s vice provost for research policy, John P. Huchra, said that the announcement “will have no particularly major or minor positive or negative impact on what Harvard does, since we’re essentially interested in all the kinds of work that they want to get done...
...list also mentions three leaders who made the final rounds of Harvard’s last presidential search, which resulted in Lawrence H. Summers’ selection in 2001—Lee C. Bollinger, now Columbia University’s president; former Harvard Provost Harvey V. Fineberg ’67, who now heads the Institute of Medicine; and Amy Gutmann ’71, currently president of the University of Pennsylvania...
...list remains undisclosed, several other candidates mentioned by alumni and academics include 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner and Howard Hughes Medical Institute President Thomas R. Cech, University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman, University of California President Robert C. Dynes, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson, Cornell Provost Carolyn “Biddy” Martin, Amherst College President Anthony W. Marx, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace President Jessica Tuchman Mathews ’67, and Washington University in St. Louis Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton...